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Raspberry Pi – VPN Server

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Connecting from the University network, I often incur into a very annoying issue, that of blocked ports. I have therefore decided to configure a personal VPN (Virtual Private Network) server where to connect to from university and have true freedom of access to whichever service I would need to use.
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Raspberry Pi – Webcam streaming

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Now it's time to make my old Creative Live! Cam Vista IM (VF0260) Webcam work on the RasPi, I also tried a new Logitech C270 HD Webcam and they both work flawlessly out of the box.
I have tried three softwares for the webcam, which I previously tested on my desktop machine running Fedora and I wanted to try them also on the Pi. These are:

  • fswebcam
  • motion
  • mjpeg-streamer

Let's now have a look at them.
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Raspberry Pi – Firmware and Updates

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Now that the system is installed on the SD card and the ssh service has been configured properly, we're going to take care of the system and firmware updates; few words have to be said about the system partitioning scheme.
The Raspbian installation consist of two partitions: the fat16 boot partition, that contains the firmware needed to the Pi to boot, and the ext4 system partition.
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Raspberry Pi – SSH and static IP

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By the time I received my RasPi, I didn't have an usb keyboard yet, so my first concern was about how to use it without the keyboard from the very first boot. It wasn't clear whether the ssh daemon would be active by default or not, and I've also got to know that for some distributions, or even among different updates of the same distribution, its default state changed over time.
I found out that in Raspbian, ssh is installed by default but it's not configured to start up automatically since the first boot.
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Raspberry Pi – Preparing the SD card

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Download the image:

First step would of course be that to choose and install a linux distribution on the SD card.
I'm personally a RedHat/Fedora user since quite some time but I thought, for the RasPi, to give Debian a go. I decided to install Raspbian “wheezy”, an optimised version of Debian for the Raspberry Pi, and it comes with LXDE as default desktop environment, for those who care about it.
You can download the image from the RaspberryPi Downloads page.
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